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Saturday, 4 February 2012

Day 3: Tobit chapter 3

Tobit sees the error of his ways and weeps bitterly. He prays to God in his anguish, sounding even more like Job than before. He’s had enough. He wants to die.
Meanwhile...
Suddenly we are introduced to someone new - a woman called Sarah who lives in Ecbatana, which Google tells me was the capital city of the Medes. Sarah too is unhappy with life - she is troubled by a demon called Asmodeus who has a habit of killing her husbands. He’s popped off seven so far, so he’s clearly been busy. Sarah’s had enough and wants to die.
God, faced with two such urgent prayers in his inbox, despatches an angel to sort it out. Raphael is instructed to cure Tobit’s blindness and do a bot of matchmaking between Sarah and Tobit’s son Tobias. And while he’s at it, he can turf out Asmodeus as well.

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